Create multi-page forms

This article explains how to break your forms into multiple pages. First, some basic information about forms in AppSheet

• A form allows the user to enter information into a table. Therefore, every form is connected to a table where the information is stored. 
• Each field on the form corresponds to a column in the underlying table. 
• By default, the form field will be labeled using the column header in your table.
• By default, the form fields will be displayed in the same sequences as they appear in your table.

See also: Create multi-page forms with conditional branching

Set up the table

When creating a multi-page form in AppSheet, think of the page break as another field in your form. Each field in the form corresponds to a column in the table. Therefore, to create a page break, simply create a new column in your table at the location where you want the page break to appear. 

The screenshot below shows an example column structure for a Contact Us form. Columns Page 1, Page 2, and Page 3 will be set as page breaks.

Note: You can call the column used for the page break anything you want. The name of the page break column is only visible to the app creator and will not be shown in the form.

Connect to AppSheet

After adding the table to AppSheet, the page break columns will appear along with all the other columns for the table. Set these columns to be page breaks as follows:

1. Open the app in the editor.
2. Go to Data  and select the table you want to edit in the Data panel.
   We've made some improvements to the app editor.
   You are opted in to the new editor by default, but you can switch back to the legacy editor at any time.
    

   If you are using the legacy editor

   Go to Data, click Columns, and expand the table you want to edit.
3. Click Edit (pencil icon) next to the column name.
4. Change the Type to Show.
5. Change the Category to Page_Header.
6. Optionally enter text to be displayed at the top of the page.

For example:

View in the app

The default form will add a Next button for the user to progress between pages. On the final page, the user will be shown the Save button.

Change to use tabs

You can choose to break the form up with tabs. Change the Form page Style to Tabs when configuring the form view.